Tag: sports
MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement fails to address players’ biggest grievances
Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball,”...
Skateboarding’s spiritual side – skaters find meaning in falls and breaking...
Terry Shoemaker, Arizona State University
Over the last decade the numbers of those identifying as “Spiritual But Not Religious,”...
Dunkology 101: How the NBA could take a more scientific approach...
Justin Barber, University of Kentucky
I grew up watching some of the greatest slam dunk artists in the world.
New evidence of discrimination against Black coaches in the NFL since...
Joshua D. Pitts, Kennesaw State University
Boldly going where no NFL coach has gone before, recently fired Miami Dolphins...
50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to –...
Roger Fielding, Tufts University
There is perhaps no better way to see the absolute pinnacle of human athletic abilities...
How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet?
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
In his 1990 autobiography, “Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was...
Why some college sports are often out of reach for students...
Kirsten Hextrum, University of Oklahoma; Chris Knoester, The Ohio State University, and James Tompsett, The Ohio State University
When...
New NCAA endorsement rules could benefit women more than men
Lindsey Darvin, State University of New York College at Cortland
Only one week after the NCAA changed its endorsement...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
